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Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Nutanix, VMware and others in HCI."It allows you to use ANY consumer or enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and that's a really great thing!"
"It has given the company an almost zero possibility of downtime."
"This solution made it possible to deploy a new infrastructure in the shortest amount of time, at a low cost without purchasing expensive hardware storage, and use unused servers."
"One of the most valuable features is the way it sets up the virtual SAN, because we don't have to buy a separate appliance for storage. It uses the existing storage on the servers, which is definitely a cost savings for us."
"StarWind allowed us to deploy highly available shared storage within our budget."
"StarWind Virtual SAN can improve an organization's storage infrastructure by providing high availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, performance, and ease of use."
"Having the ability to migrate machines live in our environment was made possible by this software."
"I've been really impressed with it so far. I think it's pretty great, actually. It does exactly what we need it to do, and it does it well, so I would recommend it. Plus, the support has been very good."
"It has centralized management. It is easy for an engineer to manage. More work goes to patching, upgrades, and maintenance. Nutanix is very easy to upgrade. It takes one click. Engineers do not need to spend additional time with Nutanix for upgrades. With one click, it will complete the upgrade and show the results. Other hypervisor solutions are not like this, specifically since you must do all the components one by one."
"Nutanix has the best virtual desktop infrastructure."
"You need to send commands through the command-line interface(CLI). This could be improved. The commands are done better in VMware."
"We really love the Lifecycle manager and one-click upgrades."
"This operating system offers stability. Setup is straightforward."
"The scalability, performance, and licensing model are the most valuable features."
"SRM capabilities for replication have been proven reliable and very useful for our organization."
"The solution remains stable across versions."
"VMware NSX: Provides the ability for our organisation to deliver true DR."
"Some of the key features are the ease of operation and access, without constraining actions. The tool is available to actually move things around, do things quickly quickly."
"UCS Manager worked well for net/blade management and has allowed fairly easy use of dedicated bare-metal blades."
"It's an integrated box Mac solution, so it's a plug and play. The deployment and build is pre-made and ready to deploy. It makes it easy to apply."
"The high redundancy of components has minimized frequent service degradation/failure."
"The component integration means I don't have to worry about technology mismatches."
"The most valuable features are reliability and high availability."
"We have seen measurable increases in our system performance. Those increases have been directly measurable in application performance and the delivery of critical business information to our users."
"A mobile app to sync up for overview and status would really be helpful."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"Some of the documentation seems to be a bit older and refers to deprecated items."
"If there was a way to automatically put disks in maintenance mode when shutting the host down and exit maintenance mode automatically, that would simplify things."
"StarWind Virtual SAN architecture is slightly complex and requires the team to carefully identify and study how the solution integrates with VMware vSphere."
"For someone entering the IT sector with little knowledge of storage, iSCSI, and virtual disks, they might not find the GUI immediately obvious."
"This product could be improved with the inclusion of new health check procedures."
"I think the setup could be streamlined a bit."
"It would be ideal if it was more secure."
"One disadvantage of Nutanix Acropolis AOS is it doesn't support external storage. Connecting external SAN storage to Nutanix, it's not supported."
"The only problem is that not many operating systems are supported on the AOS hypervisor. They need to probably increase the support on multiple operating systems. As of now, a very limited number of operating systems and patch levels are supported on AOS."
"The One-Click Upgrade process could/should offer the ability to integrate with 3rd party drivers. For example, we use NVIDIA Grid graphics cards. It would be amazing if, during the One-Click Upgrade process, we could "slipstream" additional VIB drivers for ESXi into the upgrade process."
"In terms of the IT different categories, I would like for the governing sections to be able to use it in the IT department. If they can have something like a one view management portal or software similar to VMware that would be an added value."
"We could always use a performance upgrade, or simplified management."
"The pricing model for software and hardware subscription renewals can be improved."
"We did have some integration issues."
"It needs more customer/client involvement in back-end management."
"While most public clouds are deployed on Linux, there is current no certified Vblock working on KVM hypervisors."
"VCE tools, like Vision or AMP were not stand alone, and depended too much on other management consoles."
"Improve the patching process and timeliness of updates/releases."
"The user control could be more advanced. They should work to improve this in future releases."
"The implementation and support could be better."
"Troublesome relationships with VCE at the beginning of our use came undone quickly after we went live."
"RCM upgrades were not scripted, and you needed to roll on your own. We were led to believe this would be otherwise."
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Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is ranked 2nd in HCI with 194 reviews while Vblock [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in HCI. Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is rated 8.6, while Vblock [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) writes "A powerful solution with easy deployment, upgrades, and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vblock [EOL] writes "The VCE VBlocks came along and it was the best combination of an all-in-one virtual data center in a box Converged SAN, Network, and Compute that used VMware to drive the whole package". Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) is most compared with VMware vSAN, VxRail, HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V, whereas Vblock [EOL] is most compared with .
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